Dave Askins

On the first of April, the handwritten records of enumeration for the 1950 census were released by the National Archives. That conforms with the “72-year rule,” which says the census records get released 72 years after Census Day. Here’s a few vignettes from Bloomington’s 1950 records. At 515

A request from Bloomington’s redevelopment commission (RDC) to vacate parts of two alleys in one of the blocks near the former site of the IU Health hospital was denied by Bloomington’s city council at its Wednesday meeting. The vote was split 4–5, but not along familiar lines.

Bloomington’s city council passed an ordinance in mid-December 2020 to establish a redistricting advisory commission that is supposed to make recommendations on the drawing of new city council districts, based on results of the 2020 census. The nine-member group was supposed to be seated at the start of 2021,

In a news release issued Wednesday afternoon ahead of the city council’s evening meeting, Bloomington mayor John Hamilton put a specific number on the local income tax (LIT) rate increase he has been talking about for the last several weeks. What Hamilton is proposing is an increase from 1.

The 140-foot Johnson’s Creamery smokestack will get demolished down to just 60 feet sometime in the next few weeks. But it won’t get chopped down any shorter than that, because Bloomington’s city council has now enacted a historic district for the building, including its smokestack. The Johnson’

The trademark blue former NAPA building at 3rd and Walnut streets, just south of the new parking garage and west of the downtown transit center, is the new home to Monroe County’s voting operations. Tuesday was the first day of in-person early voting for the May 3 primary elections.